That's pretty much my setup now. All my local computers back up to the local server so if any of the local ones fails, it's going to be a pretty fast restore. I don't produce very much data locally, so the incrementals should be rather small and (hopefully!) manageable over 1Mbps. 1GB takes...
I guess I should have been more detailed. I'm using NAS4FREE as my NAS and I try to treat it as much like a network appliance as possible. It's the embedded version and I'd prefer not to install any other software on it. Makes for easy upgrades.
Crashplan will let you backup to other...
Considering that the incremental backups will be going out over a 1 Mbit/s DSL connection, shouldn't Atom's be OK? I mean, this backup server is just going to sit there until, once a night, it is contacted by the main server which syncs its data up to it. Or are there other reasons to not...
I actually did install Crashplan and really liked the software and the fact that I could use both on the Windows side and the Unix side. Thing is that it can only backup to an attached drive (not over the net) unless you pay a monthly fee or take advantage of a loophole in the software. The...
I have a 6x3TB raid-z2 server and I'm starting to plan out a remote backup solution only used to backup (mirror) the main fileserver.
One option seems to be to build a new system from scratch. Although I see many posts about building the initial ZFS server, I haven't seen much talk about...
I kept digging around and there does not seem to exist a reasonable solution for backing up several TB of data online. :(
So, for now, I'm going to backup my data to removable drives while I plan out a build for a backup server. I'll perform the initial sync with the backup server locally...
I guess that you periodically perform full backups and then send the backups to your daughter? I was hoping to send only the initial seed backup, and then perform subsequent incremental backups over the internet.
I'm starting to wonder if a Raspberry Pi with a bunch of disks in a raid...
My Nas4Free ZFS server seems pretty stable now (after replacing 2 failed WD red drives out of 6 :(), and I'd like to create a backup solution for the server.
I have about 8.5TB on the server now of which only about 3.2TB are 'important' data. Max capacity is about 12TB.
Online backup does...
In case anyone is interested, I went with the S3700 and I get up to 100MB/sec now with large file writes (dd, etc.).
Before adding ZIL drive (these are write speeds measured by iometer):
Request-Size Operations/sec Throughput(MB/sec)
4k 67 0.3
8k 74 0.6
16k 72 1.1
32k 70 2.0...
I did manage to test both configs during the weekend and here are some numbers I measured. I used Iometer to measure performance (my first time using iometer...) and all measurements are for write operations. The test file created by dynamo on the client was about 2GB in size and the client was...
Sure, will do. I was just wondering of someone knew of a dealbreaker with using the SSD through ESXi as a ZIL drive so I wouldn't have to bother trying that option. Such as "once you go through esxi you lose so much performance that it's like not even having a ZIL".
I'm hoping I can get to...
I'm running an ESXi server hosting a NAS4FREE VM. I have an M1015 SAS card that I pass through to the VM using VT-d and I have 6 disks connected to the card in a raid-z2 configuration.
I'm about to add a 100GB ZIL drive (Intel S3700) and I see two ways to do this. I could put the drive on the...
So happy! With a random combination of Windows Startup Repair, bootrec /fixmbr /fixboot /rebuildbcd and /scanos commands, I was somehow able to get my system to boot again! I don't know which command fixed it (I tried each one several times), but finally it all worked!
It's about time for a...
I ran Samsung (seagate's) disk diagnostics last night from a boot CD with no errors found (even the extended tests). There are no S.M.A.R.T. errors on the drive either :(
Here's what I have in my box:
ASUS P6T (not v2 or SE)
i7-930
6GB RAM (3x2GB)
Corsair 850W PS
BFG GeForce 9800gtx+
BFG...
I built my main computer in 2010 with an ASUS P6T (no V2, no deluxe) and an X25M SSD drive. Periodically with no apparent rhyme nor reason, the machine would not boot into the OS. It would pass the BIOS but once it tried to access the SSD and load the OS, nothing would happen: I would just see a...
It seems that there are several Intel drives now that have 'enhanced power loss data protection' (supercap equivalent). There's the 320, the 710, and the s3700 with the s3700 being the newest and going for $250 for 100GB. Still trying to figure out if any other manufacturers have anything...
Umm, I guess if such a product were to exist, it would be connected in series as in power supply -> supercap dongle -> SSD. Inside the dongle, the supercap would be wired in parallel with the power supply lines, but it would also need some sort of series switch between the supercap and the power...
It's got 12G allocated to it and the 'other' VM (Ubuntu) has 2G allocated to it.
It's v28... I guess v28 is better than previous versions with regards to ZIL, but I'm not sure how this translates into v28 ZIL disk requirements. It seems that basic (non super-cap) SSD's are still not...
Ya, I'm trying to find one with caps but still haven't found a reasonably priced one... You'd think that someone would sell an adapter with capacitors that you could place in series with the power lines of a regular SSD that would guarantee power for X seconds after a power failure...
JP
Thanks for the tip and pointer! I guess my CIFS writes were asynchronous so that's why I didn't see this problem before. Seems that the best option (without turning off sync writes) is to add a ZIL drive. Now to find a cheap reliable ZIL drive...
JP
In my system, ESXi boots first from an SSD and then launches the NAS4FREE VM which uses a datastore on the same SSD. The remaining VM's are then launched one by one and these other VM's use a datastore directory hosted on NAS4FREE and exported via NFS. Just to be clear, the 'Other VM's' do not...
I'm not the original poster, but I just installed a 7500 on my desk. Works really nicely with the u2711 and it only cost $99 on amazon (out of stock now).
I installed it by clamping it to the edge of my desk, but you can also install it by drilling a hole, on the side of your desk, or on a...
Ya, just the right half. I can't quite explain it. First I thought it might come from the 'dual link DVI' interface in that perhaps one link handled the left side and the other link handled the right side. I looked up the DVI specs and that does not seem to be the case. One link handles the even...
Dell is sending me a replacement new monitor (not refurbished).
I decided to return it because I also had another problem with this monitor. Randomly, about once an hour or so, the right half of the screen would flicker for a split second. I usually keep most of my work right in the middle of...
I've decided to try for a replacement monitor because of this problem and another one.
Which Eizo or NEC models would you consider instead of this one? They all just seem so much more expensive than this one...
JP
I guess I should have posted to this thread originally...
I have a new Dell u2711 that noticeably gets darker and changes color tint towards the right side of the panel:
Here are the color measurements on the Left, Middle, and Right side of the captured image:
Left:
RGB 199 207 218...
I have a new Dell u2711 that noticeably gets darker and changes color tint towards the right side of the panel:
Here are the color measurements on the Left, Middle, and Right side of the captured image:
Left:
RGB 199 207 218
HSV 215 9 85
Middle:
RGB 208 217 229
HSV 214 9...